Jalandhar: Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Baba Bakala in Amritsar Dalbir Singh Tong was arrested in Jalandhar at the moment for allegedly violating the mannequin code of conduct and later launched on bail, Punjab Chief Electoral Officer Sibin C mentioned.
According to the mannequin code of conduct, no particular person from outdoors the polling constituency can stay within the space after the marketing campaign interval is over with out the permission of the Election Commission or a legitimate cause. Voting for the Jalandhar Lok Sabha by-election, which started at 8 am, will proceed until 6 pm.
The Punjab CEO mentioned the motion in opposition to Tong was taken below IPC Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant) and he was later launched on bail. The CEO mentioned police have been making bulletins, asking outsiders to go away the constituency.
Earlier Wednesday, Congress MLA from Shahkot Hardev Singh Laddi Sherowalia mentioned that Tong, being an outsider, was in Shahkot, which comes below the Jalandhar parliamentary constituency. Sherowalia and his supporters even blocked the AAP legislator’s automobile and known as the police.
Opposition social gathering leaders have accused the AAP of violating the mannequin code of conduct by deploying outsiders at a number of cubicles, a cost denied by the ruling social gathering. Congress candidate Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary, via her election agent, wrote a letter to the chief election commissioner, alleging AAP leaders and employees, who should not the residents of Jalandhar and got here from outdoors the constituency for campaigning, had been nonetheless current in nearly each village and ward.
Punjab BJP chief Ashwani Sharma too wrote a letter to the CEC, alleging a number of AAP MLAs and leaders had been current within the constituency. Sharma accused the AAP authorities of misusing the official equipment. The seat fell vacant after the dying of Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary on account of a cardiac arrest throughout his social gathering’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in January. The outcomes shall be declared on May 13.
